Chords for George Thorogood - Hellbound Train (Downbound Train)

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_ _ _ _ _ A stranger lied on the farm floor, had drank so much he could drink no more.
So he fell asleep with a troubled brain, dreamed that he [Em] rode on that hill-bound train.
_ [G] _ The engine was bloody, [E] it was sweaty and damp, it brilliantly lit with a brimstone lamp.
And if the fuel was shoveling bones, while the furnace rang [Em] with a thousand.
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_ The boiler was filled with [E] lager beer, the devil himself was the engineer.
The passengers were most a mildly crude, some were hoarders and others he knew.
Rich men and broad-clawed beggars and rags, handsome young ladies in wicked old [Em] hags.
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As _ _ the train restored at a terrible pace, the old curate few switched their [Em] hands and face.
Wider and [E] wider the country grew, faster and faster the engine blew.
Louder and louder the thunder thrashed, brighter and brighter the lightning flashed.
Hotter and hotter the air became, till the coals were burning with its quivering flame.
Then out of the distance there came a yell, a-ha, I said the devil we're nearing hell.
All of the passengers, stricken with pain, begged or singed to stop [Em] that train.
_ [Am] _ [Em] _ _ The stranger [E] awoke with an anguished cry, his toe wet with sweat and his hair standing high.
[E] He fell to his knees on the barry floor, prayed and prayed like never _ before.
_ _ [Em] _ _ And the prayers and vows were not in vain, for he never wrote that hell [G]-bound [E] train.
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